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(NoModeL) F. X. HINTERLBITNER.

GHILDS CARRIAGE.

Patented-July 15,1884.

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FRANZ XAVER HINTERLEITNER', OF BERLIN, GERMANY.

C HILDS CARRIAGE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 301,892, dated July 15, 1884-.

Application filed January 19, 1884. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANZ XAVER HINT-EL- LEITNER, a subject of the Emperor of Austria,

ments in Practicable Babies Carriages, of

which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to procure a cheap and strong perambulator or baby-carriage, whose construotion'permits of its being folded when not in use to economize storingspace. I attain this object by bending four thin rods of steel or other suitable material in such a manner that they, when slipped on' a central axis and kept in their proper position by means of suitable braces and stay-rods, as hereinafter described, form both the skeleton frame and the springs of the perambulator, besides the axes for the wheels.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the perambnlator, ready for use. Fig. 2 is an end view of the same. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the perambulator when folded.

The same letters indicate the same parts throughout. Y

A A are two of the bent elastic steel rods mentioned above, the upper parts, a a, of which terminate a side wall of the body of the perainbulator. Having been twisted each in one turn around the central axis, 6, forming the loops Z Z, the rods A A continue, forming the springs c, and terminate in the axlestuds (1 d, which are bent sidewise and pro- 3 5 ject at right angles to the plane of a side wall of the body 1.

It is evident that by passing the frame-rods A A around the central axis, 1), the weakening of the frame caused by drilling holes therein is obviated.

The wheels w w are secured upon the axlestuds (1 d in the usual manner.

Two braces, g g, are pivoted around the ends of the stay-rod f on each side of one end of the body and secured to the ends of the stay rod h on the opposite end of the body, so i as to be easily detachable therefrom, holding the rods A and A the desired distance apart.

The body of basket i is formed of canvas or other suitable material secured to a a and g g.

Two stay-rods, k is, hold the lower limbs of the frame apart at the proper distance.

When the p'erambulator is to be folded, the braces g g are detached from their seats at h, whereupon it can easily be folded by the revolution of A A upon the central axis, 1), as shown in Fig. 3.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a folding perambulator, the rod A, forming the loop Z, spring 0, and stud d, in one, as herein shown and described.

2. In a folding perambulator, the combination of the folding rods A A with the axis b, the braces g g, the stay-rods, and the body, as herein shown and set forth.

Signed at Berlin, Prussia, Germany, this 11th day of October, A. D. 1883.

FRANZ XAVER llINlERLEllNER. 

